I love old postcards, cutting them up for my art and often, if they are unused, I mail them
out as if I was touring around in 1930-something. I certainly am not the
only one who gets into vintage postcards.
The San Francisco author St. John Karp took some of his
inspiration for his novel Radium
Baby from his collection of Claremore,
Oklahoma postcards and other ephemera.
A few examples are shown above, and more can be seen on his blog about the town where
travelers went to enjoy the curative powers of radium water. Fortunately for all who partook in the
waters in Claremore, they were mere mineral baths and contained no actual
radium. And if you need a good
summer read, get yourself a copy of Radium Baby. It’s guaranteed to cure what ails you,
or at least entertain you….
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